310 THE B10COSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



and legs) as a division of the external Form 

 of the human body, whose members sprout 

 out of the four corners of the Trunk. The 

 latter is the chief seat of the preceding Pro- 

 cess of inner Assimilation, which takes place 

 inside ; but now that same Trunk sends forth 

 limbs which are largely employed in the work 

 of outer Assimilation. Such is the present 

 counterpart to what has gone before. Indeed 

 that inner Assimilation is quite helpless 

 against the external world which must be 

 seized and appropriated, and which must be 

 guarded against in its assaults upon the Or- 

 ganism. Thus we come to the continual 

 pitched battle between Life and Unlife, as 

 well as between Life and Life in the grand 

 struggle of individuals for a share of Life. 



In this realm of external conflict, the first 

 organ is one of protection, the enveloping 

 wall of the fortress the skin which is direct- 

 ed outward in a passive defense, yet also di- 

 rected inward as already noted. Next we 

 place the skeleton with its bones, the upholder 

 of the Organism within and without, for of- 

 fense and defense. Finally the muscles form 

 the system of ropes which direct the bones 

 and the whole organism in its varied move- 

 ments within and specially without in loco- 

 motion. These three organs or rather sys- 

 tems of organs, while they have also their 



